Nugland

Joanna and I made the trip to show our support for a more rational political discourse here in the US. Perhaps ironically, we were answering the call of a professional comedian named, for show-business reasons, Jon Stewart.

Stewart’s complaint (and mine as well) is that our political discourse has been turned into theater by the US cable news outfits (and the non-cable news outlets have been forced to follow… Continue reading

Juan Williams, formerly of NPR and Fox News, is no longer employed by NPR, according to this New York Times story.

I have a feeling that NPR probably had an intern reviewing all of his public statements, and were waiting for him to go that last millimeter too far. I figure that it took this long because, in his usual smarmy way, Williams would always very carefully hedge… Continue reading

Some people think so, apparently. But if a quote like this:

Wordiness is a problem for one white woman who spoke to researchers about NPR: “I think it can be clever and quirky, and smart and insightful. But I don’t choose to listen to it because it’s too much talking for me.

… is anything to go by, then I think that NPR would be better off… Continue reading

Ah, well. We didn’t get the boat in the water…. Continue reading